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the outer webs mostly white or fulvous-white, freckled or mottled 
with paler brown; the winglet and primary-coverts chiefly 
dark-brown, with two or more imperfect transverse bars of 
fulvous-white or paler brown; the  greater-coverts of the 
secondaries much the same as the preceding, but the 
outer webs much tinged with pale fulvous-brown, and there is 
more white and more mottling about them than the preced- 
ing ; the primaries are dark-brown, tipped with fulvous-white, 
and with four or five } to ?-inch transverse bars of white, ful- 
vous, or rufescent white, on the outer, and pale brown across 
the imner webs; the secondaries have much the same charac- 
ter as the primaries, but the bars are closer and larger in pro- 
portion, and are more conspicuously mottled, and as a whole 
generally appear to have more white upon them than the pri- 
maries ; the tertiaries and their coverts, like the greater-coverts 
of the secondaries, are a paler and more fulvous-brown, and much 
marked with imperfect bars or blotches of fulvous-white, mot- 
tled with brown; the tail-feathers are dark, somewhat umber- 
brown, tipped with rufous or fulvous-white, and with three or 
four comparatively narrow transverse bars of the same hue, 
most of the bars showing marks of faint mottling with a darker 
color; under the eyes and ear-coverts is a conspicuous patch 
of elongated, bristle-like feathers, with elongated, bare, black, 
pointed shafts, which curl up round, and are nearly as long as 
the lower mandible; the feathers of the rest of the chin, and 
a patch on the throat immediately below it, pure white, with, 
towards the tips, a dark-brown central streak, and three or four 
narrow, wavy bars of reddish-brown; the feathers on each side 
of this patch on the sides and front of the neck, breast, abdomen 
and flanks, a somewhat rufous or pinkish-brown, each feather 
with a narrow well-defined central streak of very dark-brown, 
and closely barred throughout its whole length on both webs, 
with narrow, transverse, wavy bars of a somewhat darker-brown 
than the ground color, though much lighter than the central 
streaks; thigh-coverts and vent-feathers uniform fulvous, 
streaked and barred like the body feathers ; the bars are closer 
and more numerous on the breast, and the general tint is more 
vivacious, and the reverse of this on the flanks and lower tail- 
coverts ; the wing-lining somewhat similar to the body feathers, 
but much less narrowly banded, and altogether lighter; the 
greater lower-coverts, however, of the primaries are pure white, 
broadly tipped with blackish-brown ; lower surface of the quills 
glossy-brown, darkest on the primaries, tipped with greyish 
white and with three or four transverse bars of greyish-white, 
growing yellower as they approach the bases, where the inner 
weks are mostly yellowish-white. 
The Brown Fish Owl is found throughout Sind, but has not 
vet been recorded from Guzerat, neither did I meet with it in 
Rajputana or Central India. It reappears in the Deccan and 
